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No Job? Make your Own Job

July 13, 2011, Creativity and Ideation, General Thoughts
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/no-job-make-your-own-job/

Thomas Friedman wrote an op-ed yesterday about the fundamental shift that has taken place in the job market. This shift went from getting a degree and expecting a job offer where you could use those skills to having to create that job yourself. As Friedman states: I think something else, something new — something that [...]

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Entitlement vs Entrepreneurship

April 12, 2011, General Thoughts
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/entitlement-vs-entrepreneurship/

I heard a story recently about a very educated person who has having trouble finding a job. He is getting frustrated and feels that he is entitled to a job because he spent so many years in college earning his PhD. I remember feeling that way when I started working my first job out of [...]

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Fareed Zakaria: Are America's Best Days Behind Us – MUST READ

March 5, 2011, Government, International
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/fareed-zakaria-are-americas-best-days-behind-us-must-read/

Are America’s Best Days Behind Us – Read this to understand the challenge of our present times. Why we, as a country, are presently exceptional but why that excellence is at risk.

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Great Bootstrapping Story – Cafe and Rock-Climbing Gym

March 3, 2011, Bootstrapping, Entrepreneurship Stories
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/great-bootstrapping-story-cafe-and-rock-climbing-gym/

Bootstrapping a business while maintaining a primary job – it is very possible. Here is a story about one of my best friends opening a small cafe in a climbing gym.

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Cool Business Idea with Belgium Waffles

September 22, 2010, Creativity and Ideation, Entrepreneurship Stories
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/cool-business-idea-with-belgium-waffles/

The Wafflery offers a delicious waffle and seems to enough differentiation to survive as a new business.

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Tony Blair on the Role of Government

September 3, 2010, Economics, Entrepreneurship Quotes, Total Entrepreneurial Activity
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/tony-blair-on-the-role-of-government/

This quote comes from Tony Blair’s new memoir: “Ultimately the recovery will be led not by governments but by industry, business, and the creativity, ingenuity and enterprise of people. If the measures you take in responding to the crisis diminish their incentives, curb their entrepreneurship, make them feel unsure about the climate in which they [...]

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Andrew Mwenda's Africa Speech at TED

August 19, 2010, Government, International, Total Entrepreneurial Activity
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/andrew-mwenda-africa-speech-ted/

Below is a video from the TED conference by a gentleman named Andrew Mwenda. In it, he describes the answer to Africa’s woes is not more aid, but is in releasing the entrepreneurial fervor of each nation. Job growth does not occur from more money to the government, but comes from entrepreneurs starting businesses. This [...]

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Indian and Chinese Entrepreneurs

August 9, 2010, Government, International, Total Entrepreneurial Activity
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/indian-and-chinese-entrepreneurs/

In 2007, a group of Georgia State students traveled to India to answer one central question – “Was the Indian government assisting or halting entrepreneurship?” Our findings were that there were plenty of opportunities to start a business in India, that the bureaucratic process often hindered the speed of a start up, and that the [...]

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Prince and Grinds – A Must Read from David Brooks

July 15, 2010, Business Ownership, Economics
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/prince-and-grinds-a-must-read-from-david-brooks/

Princes and Grinds – We need more grinds to innovate, start businesses, and build jobs. A great article on the need for entrepreneurs by David Brooks of the New York Times.

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Constant Contact Press Release Features The Entrepreneur School

April 29, 2010, Marketing, The Entrepreneur School
http://www.schoolforstartups.com/constant-contact-press-release-features-the-entrepreneur-school/

Constant Contact features The Entrepreneur School in a press release. The Entrepreneur School is honored to be chosen out of 350,000 Constant Contact clients. Press releases have a spider affect for links and brand recognition.

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